I really enjoyed the first Harold and Kumar, and every time I watch it, I crave White Castle. So I had decent expectations for this one.
It picked up right after the first one ended. They decided to go to Amsterdam. While on the plane, Dumar decides to smoke some pot, in his newest invention, the smokeless bong. The plane encounters turbulance, the door opens, and of course they think that he's lighting a bomb, and the air marshals snag him and Harold.
Then the hilarity starts, from the "cock sandwich" to Dubya. I won't go thru their whole adventure, but I'll hit the highlights and lowlights.
Kal Penn and John Cho are funny in their characters. I think they do a good job playing off of each other, and Kal Penn does a nice job of not hogging the spotlight, since he's the higher profile of the two.
I thought that the two lady interests of them were gorgeous. Paula Garces, who plays Maria, is great until she tries to act. Danneel Harris plays Vanessa. She did a good job, and could actually act. Not to mention, she's hot.
The script was hot and cold. There was a running gag, and message thru it, about racial profiling, and why its wrong. I'm not against that, but sometimes they weree so over the top, that it just slid into stupidity.
The pacing was pretty good, but you did get the feeling that some of the scenes were just filler, with an attempt to be funny.
Rob Coddry was horrible as Agent Fox. He's in charge of chasing them down. Unfortunately he's so stupid, he's his own worst enemy. The character is so poorly written, looking for easy, stupid humor, that I started hating him 2 minutes into him, and never stopped.
The other highlights were James Adomian as George W Bush, and NPH as himself. He didn't really sound like Dubya, but he sure was funny. Whoever wrote the part, did a great job.
And Neil Patrick Harris as Neil Patrick Harris is just funny. And let me tell you, I think the writers pooled all their efforts to make him funny, and let everything else go just a little.
But overall, it was funny. Not near as good as the first one, but you'll get some laughs.
I'll give this one 7 joints out of 10, only because there was tons of nudity, but without that, a 6 at best.
